At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Havelock Ellis

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Havelock Ellis

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
Havelock Ellis

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
Havelock Ellis

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.
Havelock Ellis

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Havelock Ellis

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Havelock Ellis

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis